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In search of home

PSYCHOLOGY: Do we belong where we were born and raised? Or where we chose to form new roots? Many people are drawn to authoritarian environments, where organized contempt for people drives away decency and personal responsibility. Has rootedness possibly become less attractive than rootlessness?
Ranveig Eckhoff -

"Man's technological omnipotence also became our disempowerment"

NUCLEAR BOMBS:Günther Anders was concerned that man's highest science had constructed an instrument for its own destruction. In this book, Hannah Winther actualizes him by drawing in Christopher Nolan's Oscar-winning Oppenheimer film that just plays on the old Prometheus myth.
John Y. Jones -

revolutionary Romance

REBELLION: Through this essay we are taken on an exciting journey through revolutions all over the world. The book refers, for example, to the 2010 uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, Syria, Libya, Yemen and Bahrain.
Aslak Storaker -

A form of loss of freedom

PHILOSOPHY: According to Marx, alienation can occur when we work and produce things that do not correspond to our own identity. But what does Rahel Jaeggi write about this today?
Ali Jones Alkazemi -

End Times Thoughts

PHILOSOPHY: While postmodernism involved an explosion, today's posthumous condition, according to Marina Garcés, involves a liquidation of all possibilities – an implosion. Yes, are the hopes we cling to today just market-adapted needs for hope?
Henning Næs -

The Agamben and the Ethics of Abstinence

The community that is to come is a learned, rich, complex and sometimes obscure text. Here and there it borders on the mysticism: Agamben empties the ram of a patriarchal God Father with one hand and reintroduces with Spinoza all the divinity of things with the other, before drawing it all back into the profane, and then holding the "solution", a quivering aura, ahead of us.
Erland Kiøsterud -

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